‘Classified data’ posted on Elon Musk’s DOGE website: report
Coders this week exposed serious security issues with Elon Musk's official Department of Government Efficiency website and now Huffington Post reports that the website has published classified data.
According to the report, the DOGE website has posted "information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website," which the publication says is raising questions about just how much access to classified information Musk and his DOGE team have.
One Defense Intelligence Agency employee tells Huffington Post that revelations about the DOGE website posting staffing information about the National Reconnaissance Office is setting off a scramble among agencies to determine if their offices have been compromised.
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An aide to a senator who works closely on intelligence-related matters says that while there is some debate over whether the NRO's staffing information should even be classified, the fact that DOGE is sharing it "is absolutely a problem under the current intelligence standards," especially given that DOGE is staffed by young Musk acolytes who have not gone through the security clearance process.
"These 25-year-old programmers, I don’t think they have enough experience to know what they don’t know,” said the aide. “Really, the question is: Where did this get this information and what are they doing with it?”
Democratic lawmaker fears Chuck Schumer is walking party into a Republican trap
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) expressed concern that Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is walking his party into a Republican trap.
The New York Times reported on Friday that Democrats haven't been willing to shut down the government over budget negotiations in past years — but some are now demanding that change.
Deficit hawks in the GOP are unwilling to support any budget measure that raises the debt ceiling and doesn't drastically cut spending. This puts leaders like Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in a difficult position because they can't afford to lose votes — and means they'll have to turn to Democrats for help passing the budget, raising the debt ceiling, and averting a government shutdown.
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Over the years, Democrats have been willing to offset those on the far right. Now, some want to stop playing ball, even if it leads to a government shutdown.
“If Elon Musk and DOGE has found all of this fraud, and waste, and abuse — hundreds of billions of dollars, as they claim — well, then, we can’t fund the government by C.R. anymore,” Moskowitz said in a floor speech this week. He was referencing the continuing resolution that has been used as a temporary measure to keep the budget funded. The upcoming deadline is March 14.
“The C.R. would re-fund all of that waste, fraud and abuse that DOGE has found,” Moskowitz continued. “Which means the only way to fund the government is to fund it by individual spending bills.”
Moskowitz spoke to the Times on Wednesday night and expressed his concern about a GOP trap, saying that he hopes "party leaders like Mr. Schumer [doesn't] lead them into it."
“They want us to constantly defend the status quo and are setting us up to do that,” he said of his GOP colleagues. “We don’t want to close the government, but if the speaker of the House doesn’t start moving individual spending bills, the other choice is to go fund all the fraud and abuse they claim to have found.”
Sens. Andy Kim and Cory Booker, both New Jersey Democrats, also seem willing to let the shutdown move forward, despite Schumer's promise that he won't allow that to happen, the report said.
Kim told "Meet the Press" last Sunday, “I cannot support efforts that will continue this lawlessness that we’re seeing when it comes to this administration’s actions. For us to able to support government funding in that way, only for them to turn around to dismantle the government, that is not something that can be allowed.”
Republicans currently hold control of the House, Senate and the White House. President Donald Trump said that the election gave them a "massive" mandate.
DOJ gives lawyers ‘hour to decide’ who’ll dismiss charges against Eric Adams — or be fired
Department of Justice (DOJ) leadership “has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with one hour to decide who will dismiss” the indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams “or else all will be fired,” NBC legal analyst Barb McQuade reported Friday.
The move comes after Danielle Sassoon — who was named acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York last month — on Thursday resigned from her position after refusing an order from acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to dismiss the Adams indictment.
As Reuters reports, five senior Justice Department officials followed suit, resigning "rather than comply with an order to dismiss corruption charges" against Adams.
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According to the DOJ website, the Public Integrity Section (PIN) “oversees the investigation and prosecution of all federal crimes affecting government integrity, including bribery of public officials, election crimes, and other related offenses.”
In her post detailing the hour deadline, McQuade, a former US attorney, sent the PIN lawyers “strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda.”
Read more about Sassoon's resignation here.
READ MORE: 'Muzzled': Thousands of civil rights investigations halted under TrumpLarry David sparks internet firestorm with ‘genius’ sketch-comedy roast of RFK Jr.
Comedy legend Larry David ridiculed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a hysterical sketch delivering laughs online.
David, who was formerly a personal friend of Kennedy's and even played the husband of Kennedy's real-life wife, actress Cheryl Hines, on the popular show "Curb Your Enthusiasm," made it clear what he thought about the Trump official. He appeared to tell his character in the spoof to "drop dead" in one segment of his new HBO series, "Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America."
In the sketch, David casts himself as the mother of Jonas Salk — an American virologist and biomedical scientist who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines — who gets into a fighting match with neighbor "Bobby," who has a similar-sounding voice and tan as the health secretary.
The internet reacted to the brutal burn.
"Holy s---, Larry David absolutely COOKED RFK Jr's stupid a--, playing Dr. Jonas Salk's mom, saying it would be a 'dark day for humanity' if some idiot ever put HIM in charge of health. This is HILARIOUS!" The X account BrooklynDad_Defiant!, which has more than 1.3 million followers, wrote.
"The bear part is by far the best SICKO!" Journalist Meghan McCarthy wrote on X.
"Larry David is a flat out genius," Eric Land, a political commentator with nearly 10,000 followers, wrote on X.
"Larry David casting himself as Salk's mom is the kind of absurdly precise satire that makes the point better than any actual policy debate could. It's the only way to fight that level of chaos," author Hüseyin Örskaya wrote on X.
